The Modern Classics Diary of a Provincial Lady, E M Delafield metal and the sense that our

and the sense that our attention spans are shrivelling

they don’t know what to do but try to move on from each other

”—The Economist

Vegetables made easy

The Modern Classics Diary of a Provincial Lady, E M Delafield metal and the sense that our'January 22nd Robert startles me at breakfast by asking if my cold which he has hitherto ignored is better. I reply that it has gone. Then why, he asks, do I look like that? Feel that life is wholly unendurable, and decide madly to get a new hat' It's not easy being a Provincial Lady in Devonshire in the 1920s, juggling a grumpy husband, mischievous children and a host of domestic dilemmas from rice mould to a petulant cook. But this Provincial Lady